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That HTC has become quite the tease lately. First, the company (in all likelihood) leaked some shots to various tech site. Now, the handset maker has launched a 4G site which teases a new handset coming out Jan. 6. The site touts HTC’s history in this space: there’s a picture of the EVO 4G with…
Radio Shack is having another cool smartphone promotion, as the retailer is offering the Android-powered EVO 4G for $99 when you trade in a phone and sign a new contract. The promotion will run through Christmas day and it’s unclear if you can just bring any old phone in off the street. Still, if you’ve…
HTC, looking to grab as much attention as they can before the Consumer Electronics Show taking place in Las Vegas next month and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the month after, has started leaking images of their own devices to various media outlets. So far Gizmodo, CrunchGear, AndroidCentral, SlashGear, and Engadget have received images that…
A few weeks ago, we saw a spy shot of the Sprint HTC EVO Shift 4G enclosed in a rugged case. Today, we have a series of images that show the front, the back, and the lovely keyboard of this side slider. Taking a closer look, we see the standard physical landscape keyboard with optical trackpad.…
HTC announced today that it is opening a new R&D office in Durham, North Carolina. The office will employ 45 people and will focus on wireless technology research. The North Carolina facility will be first East Coast location for HTC and the third in the United States. HTC currently operates an office out of Seattle…
Whether officially or unofficially, the Gingerbread version of Android – or 2.3 – is making its rounds. This morning we caught wind of the update readying for the Nexus One – the original Google phone. While the update simmers until it’s ready, which should be in the coming weeks, some clever hackers were able to…
When the Google Nexus S was announced, some Nexus One owners were already beginning to feel a little envy. Why? Aside from gadgets getting stale a little after a year, it was big news that the follow up to the Google phone would be the first with the next iteration of Android – Gingerbread. Android…
HTC has just issued an update concerning the Wildfire via their Facebook page that says European owners will get an upgrade to the Android 2.2 operating system this week, while the rest of the world has to wait until February 2011. The Wildfire, for those of you who may not be familiar with the low…
It has been a wild ride in the mobile world this year, as the pace of innovation has been going along at blistering speeds. Just think, at the beginning of the year, we were still drooling over the Motorola Droid, Microsoft was dead in the water with Windows Mobile, Palm was still puttering along as…
Although it’s kind of hard to tell, this is apparently the HTC Desire HD, and it’s heading to Telus sometime in January/February next year according to tipsters. It’s good to see those wishy-washy rumours last month gaining some more concrete proof. No mention of pricing, but I wouldn’t expect it to be more than $200…